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Last week while listing team results, I had the Greenbrier girls lacrosse team record wrong. It should have been listed as 8-6. Sorry about that, girls.

High school lacrosse has been picking up, and our athletes are making their mark at the collegiate level as well. Clay Singletary (Greenbrier) and Justin Wells (Lakeside) are part of the Reinhardt University Eagles which just finished their most successful season with a 15-4 record.

There’s been a few incidents at games this year that hopefully will stay with me when and if my son decides he wants to compete in athletics.

Whether fair or unfair, universally umpires/referees are targets of everybody’s wrath. More disturbingly lately, however, athletes have been targets.

At a recent event, a group of parents were heard to be yelling at players on their own team. And it wasn’t exactly encouragement. It was bad enough that the game had to be stopped and the parents advised to go back to the stands or parking lot.

With May upon us, the final spring sports pictures are taking shape. Some teams are still in various stages of competition while others have seen their seasons come to a close.

TENNIS: In Georgia Class AAAAA tennis this week, Greenbrier’s girls advanced to the second round of the state competition after beating Union Grove, while the Evans girls season concluded with a loss to McIntosh. On the boys side, Greenbrier fell to McIntosh and the Evans boys lost to Union Grove.

Not unexpectedly, Columbia County tennis teams are already making a racket in the postseason, and Wednesday was a good day.

The Lakeside High School Lady Panthers, the defending Georgia High School Association Class AAAAA state champions, and the Lakeside boys team both entered the Region 2-AAAAA one-day tournament unbeaten (14-0) and would leave the same way, defending their 2013 region titles with 3-0 finals wins over Greenbrier.

Everybody rested, so here we go as we make the stretch run through the end of the year.

Even though I was sick and lost 10 pounds working The Masters a year ago – which wasn’t a bad thing – I thoroughly enjoyed the week. I mean, how can you not in that setting?

This year, I stayed in the comfy confines of the News-Times office in Evans for the most part, and that was OK, too. It’s been a long year, and to be honest, the spring season is the most draining. Between game coverage and things popping up, there’s little time to catch your breath.

Greenbrier High School boys soccer coach Graeme Connolly and girls coach Wes Kendrick violated the most basic of coach-speak rules this week. Instead of bemoaning their respective close losses to state powerhouse McIntosh a week ago, the coaches basically acknowledged it as a moral victory.

I hope they don’t get in trouble for breaking the code.

The McIntosh squads came to Blanchard Woods Park virtually identical with the boys sporting a 8-0 record and as the top ranked team in Class AAAAA while the girls were 7-0 and ranked No. 2.